Ring
Stephen Baxter's Ring (1994) is a time-travel fiction novel. Readers will find themes of time travel.
Open Library readers give it an average of 3.8 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 17 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 9 editions.
It runs to roughly 496 pages — 9–10 hours of reading at an average pace.
About Ring
From back cover Harper paperback June 1996: Michael Poole's *wormholes* constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that the stars themselves were dying embers, came an urgent SOS -- and a promise. The universe was doomed, but humankind was not. Poole had stumbled upon an immense artifact, light-years across, fabricated from the very *string* of the cosmos. The Universe had a door. And it was open....
Awards & lists
- ✦Locus Awards 1995 — Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee)
Quick answers
Who wrote Ring?
Ring was written by Stephen Baxter and first published in 1994.
What genre is Ring?
It is usually shelved as Time Travel.
How long is Ring?
The median edition has 496 pages, about 9–10 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Ring?
Readers who like it often enjoy Kindred, Timeline and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
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